Aristarchus Crater has long been a much debated enigma
on the Moon. Yet whenever you see pictures and try to get close in for
details, the area is a total white out, with no detail. It is supposedly
because of its brightness. We will discuss the rumors and stories of Aristarchus
further down. The image above is taken from LICKOSB9 As you can see the
area is devoid of any gray pixels, leaving a totally white splotch. Below
is the same area on LICKOSBA. Again we see the totally white splotch. You
will find this in all of the lesser quality full moon images on the web.

The Day The Lights Were
On.Aristarchus CraterDec 17th 2005.

Aristarchus CraterCredit: Mike's Astroimagery UK

If you haven't already seen the Full Moon that Mike
took where this clip of Aristarchus is a small section, you can do so HERE.
The picture above is Aristarchus Crater clipped from an image taken
with a 10" Telescope in the UK. Compare this
image to the high resolution image from the Clementine Satellite
below and remember that this is a 10" telescope image.

You will notice the symmetrical dome like structure
of the "crater" as well as the bright blue glow that literally lights up
the surrounding area! The overall effect is that of plasma energy emitting
from the dome, or at least very bright light.

Electric Blue CraterAristarchus CraterClementine Image1994.

Credit: USGS/US Navy/Clementine Spacecraft

The image above is cropped from the full spread Clementine
Nearside.tif image. Click on the image to see one cropped from the 65 meg
version. Both the Clementine and Mike's image show the beautiful
"Electric Blue" color of the crater and both show dome like structures,
with a bright center. Both also show that the luminescence covers the surrounding
area.

Now we have a third confirmation... this one is also
from the UK

UPDATESept 06 2007Clementine Lunar Image Browser
1.5

Credit: US Navy/Clementine Spacecraft

Aristarchus Showing Structure

The images above are clips from
the US NAVY original Clementine gallery, Clementine
Lunar Image Browser 1.5. The data set was only available in low resolution,
heavy pixelated jpg images but even in those you can see the "glowing structure"
and the rectangular area that is clearer than the surrounding area

The same pretty Blue Gem we see from Clementine! The
same glow emanating from the center flooding the area. The image above
is from another well known British astronomer, Anthony Jennings, using
an 8" LX90 SCT telescope and a Philips ToUcam 2xBarlow camera. The image
below is an enlarged clip. Anthony has no connection to Pegasus and his
images are freely available at his web site; Anthony
Jennings Astronomy Site

Both these Astronomers captured the "Blue Gem"
on the same day from two locations, Date: 17th December, 2005. This is
a clip from a Moon Mosaic of 120 images (Mike used 170). This time the
scope is even smaller... an 8 inch scope!

Important Note: Neither
Mike Deegan nor Anthony Jenkins are part of Pegasus or the Living Moon
and are merely Astronomers that have taken excellent images. As such they
do not necessarily share our views about Aristarchus, nor follow our research

More Blue Gems

Aristarchus CraterGalileo SpacecraftDecember 7, 1992.

Though not as high a resolution, we can still see the
blue glow in these three images.

John Lear believes this to be a Fusion Reactor. Other
members of Pegasus have different ideas, but all are related to some sort
of power device. We now have several images from several independent sources
showing the electric blue glow and the "structure". All the images we have
seen where "the lights are on" show this regular uniform structure, yet
many photos can be found that show just a crater.

Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP)

From this and other documentary evidence we have gathered,
it appears that this phenomena is not always on. When all the data is correlated
it will be presented here on this website. but here are a few observances
around Aristarchus Crater...

Report Nov 2-3, 1958

"On the night
of November 2-3, 1958, Russian astronomer Nikolai A.
Kozyrev witnessed a strange phenomenon while making spectrograms
of the crater Alphonsus with
the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory's 50-inch
reflector. As he watched through the telescope's
guiding eyepiece, he saw the crater's central peak
blur and turn an unusual reddish color.
The spectrograms confirmed his visual impressions
of a volcanic event; they showed an emission spectrum
of carbon vapor (S&T:February, 1959, page 184).. Kozyrev
has recorded via spectrograms numerous incidents of red transient lunar
phenomena, particularly in the 80 mile wide crater known as Alphonsus.
It was at this location in 1965 that the final Ranger probe 9 crash landed.
Aristarchus
is not only one of the brightest formations on the moon, it is responsible
for more than half the number of reported TLP and has been a proven source
for gaseous emissions - Farshores.org

Reports 1650 to 1950

NASA Technical Report TR R-277. was published in July
1968 as a Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events and is available
here - NASA Technical
Report TR R-277

Sky and Telescope published an article basically
saying anyone who sees a TLP is just seeing an illusion, despite hundreds
of sightings by reputable astronomers... Well April 23, 1994 would change
that dramatically... and involves our friend Clementine

Apollo 11 provides us with this incidence
that gives a perspective of one event from two angles... one on Earth and
one in orbit around the moon.

"On July 19, 1969,
the Apollo 11 command module had just achieved orbit
around the Moon when the Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas,
received word that amateur astronomers reported transient phenomena
in the vicinity of the crater Aristarchus. Asked to check out
the situation, astronaut Neil Armstrong looked out his window toward
the earth lit region and observed an "area that is considerably more
illuminated than the surrounding area.It just has -- seems
to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it." Although he
wasn't sure, Armstrong believed the region was Aristarchus."
- Farshores.org

UPDATE Sept 07, 2007

REPORTS of curious flashes and fleeting clouds on the
Moon may not be figments of wild imaginations, astronomers say. A new look
at observations by the American satellite Clementine show that a small
area on the Moon's surface darkened and reddened in April 1994. Why this
happened remains a mystery.

For hundreds of years, people have reported seeing
flashes, short-lived clouds and other brief changes on the Moon's surface.
But astronomers have never been able to confirm the sightings. "The events
were observed on many occasions, but most astronomers don't believe in
them," says Bonnie Buratti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California. On 23 April 1994, around a hundred amateur astronomers reported
seeing a possible darkening of the Moon, lasting 40 minutes, near the edge
of the bright lunar crater Aristarchus. At the same time, the US Department
of Defense's Clementine satellite was mapping the lunar surface.

One of the first real attempts to catalogue a large
number of TLP sightings was made on behalf of NASA and published in a report
which gave details of 579 mysterious lunar events dating from 26 November
1540 (pre-telescopic) to 19 October 1967 [4]. The catalogue appeared just
a year before Neil Armstrong planted his size 11 boot in the Sea of Tranquillity;
strange that such an important and well-funded Moon-landing programme chose
to arm itself with some basic historical TLP data only at the very last
minute.

NASA's belated enquiries represented a grudging acknowledgement
that the Moon might not actually be the dead world it so convincingly advertises
itself to be for most of the time. It was in NASA's interest, however,
to down-play the idea of an active Moon. Known factors in lunar exploration
were hazardous enough to plan for and contend with, without having to admit
that lurking somewhere beneath the Moon's surface there might be some unknown,
unpredictable and uncontrollable threat to their prospective Apollo lunar
astronauts which could jeopardize the $25 billion programme.

This page is a copy of the Mission Debriefing Log after
they came back to Earth. John Lear has a copy of this in his collection.
What I find interesting is the other area that was "lit up" and was not
Aristarchus. Aldrin says they could look in the films, but we all know
what happened to those films...

Excerpt 001.

Excerpt 002.

Excerpt 003.

Excerpt 004.

Excerpt 005.

Excerpt 006.

Excerpt 007.

Excerpt 008.

Summary....

So it is established that Aristarchus has an unusual
glow and that it is in the blue, violet and ultra-violet range. Here we
also have brief mention (citing other papers which we are looking for)
of a Lunar atmosphere in a NASA/JPL paper, and furthermore they state the
night sky on the Moon is illuminated.

The table above shows us that Aristarchus increases
in intensity at different times, with a major peak on Oct 2 1955 observed
with a 50 inch Russian scope...

Below we will give you an idea what the H and K spectrums
represent....

H Spectrum.

The photo above is the spectrum of a glass tube
filled with hydrogen that is excited with a high voltage. It resembles
a neon sign, except the glass is straight and filled
with hydrogen gas and not neon.

The important features are the
bright emission lines in the Hydrogen spectrum. There is one line in the
visible red, the brightness one in the blue, the second from the right
is in the violet range and the last in the ultra violet range, not visible
to the human eye, but barely detectable with a digital camera. (Data collected
from the Warren Wilson College Physics Department)

What is relevant in our look
at Aristarchus is the intense emission in the blue to ultra violet end
of the spectrum of Hydrogen plasma emissions. In the Russian/NASA document
we see recorded evidence of strong and variable emissions in this H spectrum
as well as the K. In the papers below we can see that the K spectrum emissions
also are involved with ionized plasma...

"The explanation of the hydrogen
spectrum is perhaps the most important test that any theory of electronic
structure must pass. The wavelengths of the lines of the Balmer series
(shown above) as well as other series in the spectrum of hydrogen are very
well known indeed." - University
of Kentucky

This paper is organized as follows. In § 2, we
describe the EBIT and review our experimental procedure. In § 3, we
present our measured spectra and compare them to published predicted spectra
for ionizing plasmas. In § 4, we discuss the effects of K-shell
ionization and the consequent spectral dependence on the shape of the electron
distribution.

Livermore Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT). The electron
density in the EBIT is similar to the electron density of solar flares...

All the papers we find dealing
with the K Spectrum are all heavy reading in Physics, but they talk about
electron emissions, solar and cosmic radiation and Ionized Plasma.
Combining these pieces shows us that Aristarchus definitely has emissions
in both these spectra, and that the emissions are not always there, and
that they have ben recorded at different intensities.

Does this make Aristarchus a
Fusion Reactor? We don't know, but the evidence certainly indicates something
along those lines is going on. Time to start looking at the Moon with ultraviolet
cameras...

One last piece of the puzzle...
below is a Fusion Reactor that has proven successful at Sandia National
Laboratory

"Z causes reactions
to occur neither by confining low density plasmas in dimensionally huge
magnetic fields, as do tokomaks, nor by focusing intense laser beams on
or around a target, as in laser fusion, but simply through the application
of huge pulses of electricity applied with very sophisticated timing. The
pulse creates an intense magnetic field that crushes tungsten wires into
a foam cylinder to produce X-rays. The X-ray energy, striking the surface
of the target capsule embedded in the cylinder, produces a shock wave that
compresses the deuterium within the capsule, fusing enough deuterium to
produce neutrons."
Sandia National Labs

What is most interesting is the
appearance and color of the reactor... This makes it quite conceivable
that when the Aristarchus Reactor is off, you might not see anything unusual
at all. Perhaps a closer look at those pictures that show it close up might
show something inside

SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORYZ MACHINE

MITThe Levitated Dipole Fusion Confinement Concept.

Welcome to the Levitated Dipole eXperiment (LDX) web
site. LDX is a novel experimental device designed to explore the physics
of plasma confinement in a magnetic dipole field. What makes it unique?
Besides levitating a 1/2 ton super conducting ring, we will conduct the
first experimental test on the theory of plasma confinement by adiabatic
compressibility. If this concept turns out to be correct, levitated dipoles
may one day make an attractive magnetically confined fusion energy source.
LDX is a collaboration between Columbia
University's Dept. of Applied Physics and the MIT
Plasma Science & Fusion Center and is funded by the Department
of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy.

A levitated dipole would be favorable for a D-He3 fuel
cycle based power source.

Additionally a levitated dipole
device would be intrinsically steady state and extract power as surface
heating, permitting a thin walled vacuum vessel and eliminating the need
for a massive neutron shield.

Electron temperatures of 500–1000 eV are routinely
achieved in laboratory plasma sources such as laser producedplasmas, fast pinches, and tokamaks.
As a result, mid Z elements are typically
found in the helium like charge state and radiate in the x-ray region.
The helium like Ka emission consisting of transitions from the n52 levels
to n51 has been studied in detail in both tokamak and laser produced plasmas
(1,2). These studies have demonstrated thegreat utility of the Ka spectra for determining various
plasma parameters such as the electron and ion temperatures,the plasma density, the ion transport coefficients,
and the fraction of non Maxwellian electrons.

K-shell x-ray spectra involving transitions from levels
higher than n52 have been studied in much less detail. Webelieve such K-shell spectra ~Kb, Kg , etc.! in many
cases could be even more useful for diagnostic applications thanthe traditionally used Ka emission, because these
transitions, as a rule, are optically thin even in a dense laser produced
plasma. The most detailed investigations of the helium like argon Kb spectra
have been made recently on the Princeton Large Torus tokamak (3) and on
the Livermore electron beam ion trap ~EBIT! facility (4). In the present
paper these spectra have been investigated for the case of a high density
laser produced plasma. Using this type of plasma source it is possible
to test the atomic theory for a plasma that is in an intermediate regime
between that described by coronal ~collisionless! and local thermodynamic
equilibrium approximations.

Our measurements include the positions and strengths
of the 1s2l3l8-1s22l and 1s2l4l8-1s22l lithium like satellitelines, Kb1 and Kb2 helium like lines, and 1s25d-1s22p
lithium like transitions. A detailed comparison of the measuredargon spectrum with the theoretical data has been
made. Good agreement is obtained for both the wavelengths and the intensities
of the spectral lines, which allows us to estimate the parameters of the
laser produced plasma fromthe gas puff target.

tokamaks -

A tokamak is a machine producing
a toroidal (doughnut shaped) magnetic field for confining a plasma. It
is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices and the
leading candidate for producing fusion energy.

The term Tokamak is a transliteration
of the Russian word ??????? which itself comes from the Russian words:
"???????????? ?????? ? ????????? ????????" (toroidal'nayakamera
v magnitnykhkatushkakh)
— toroidal chamber in magnetic coils (Tochamac)).
It was invented in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
and Andrei Sakharov (who were in turn inspired by an original idea of Oleg
Lavrentyev).

The tokamak is characterized
by azimuthal (rotational) symmetry and the use of the plasma current to
generate the helical component of the magnetic field necessary for stable
equilibrium. This can be contrasted to another toroidal magnetic confinement
device, the stellarator, which has a discrete (e.g. five-fold) rotational
symmetry and in which all of the confining magnetic fields are produced
by external coils with a negligible current flowing through the plasma.

Hence the Z-Machine fusion reactor
mentioned above by Sandia National Laboratory. a division of Lockheed Martin

Here is another paper that is
relatively easier to understand what the K Spectrum represents Every
example we have show ties the K spectrum emissions together with fusion
reactors. The H and K spectrums are something we also see in the Sun.
Based on our research we would expect to see them from the Sun... after
all we KNOW the Sun is a Fusion Reactor...

We would NOT expect to see these
types of emission from Aristarchus Crater, yet we have shown the visual
and the measured data to prove that we in fact DO see these emissions...

H and K spectra are in the emissions
from the Sun ( a known fusion reactor); they are shown from the Z Machine
of Sandia ( a known fusion reactor); they are shown from Tokamaks ( leading
candidate for producing fusion energy); and they are shown from Lawrence
Livermore laser produced plasma experiments and electron beam ion trap
use in fusion experiments...

H and K spectra are shown in
the emissions of Aristarchus Crater... so what is Aristarchus crater?

Repeat after me FUSION
REACTOR

It is interesting to note that
while doing all this research, we find ourselves getting our best data
from RUSSIA... I even requested a NASA document from a NASA historian some
time ago and they said they did not have it and referred me to a RUSSIAN
website that had a good summary of the file...

Here again the Aristarchus readings
were from RUSSIA in 1955. The document from LLNL was written by RUSSIANS.
And the Tokamak, a fusion generator, is a RUSSIAN name and invented by
RUSSIANS in 1950!!!

Does anybody else get the picture
yet? Remember Sir Patrick Moore? The RUSSIANS got their moon data from
him, not NASA

Na Zdorovje Comrades!

UPDATE Sept 06 2007

Aristarchus Crater Additional
Information

(1) Observers have noted that
the wall is roughly circular but has a somewhat polygonal shape.

(2) In 1911, Professor Robert
W. Wood used ultraviolet photography
to take images of the crater area. He discovered the plateau had an anomalous
appearance in the ultraviolet, and an area
to the north appeared to give indications of a sulfur deposit.[3] This
colorful area is sometimes referred to as "Wood's Spot", an alternate name
for the Aristarchus Plateau.

(3) The Hubble Advanced Camera
for Surveys was used to photograph the crater is visual and ultraviolet
light. The crater was determined to have especially
rich concentrations of ilmenite, a titanium oxide mineral that could potentially
be used in the future by a lunar settlement for extracting oxygen.[4]

(4) The region of the Aristarchus
plateau has been the site of many reported transient lunar phenomena. Such
events include temporary obscurations and colorations of the surface, and
catalogues of these show that more than one-third
come from this locale.[5]

(5) In 1971 when Apollo 15 passed
110 kilometers above the Aristarchus plateau, a significant rise in alpha
particles was detected. These particles are
believed to be caused by the decay of radon-222, a radioactive gas with
a half-life of only 3.8 days. The Lunar Prospector mission later confirmed
Radon-222 emissions from this crater.[6] These observations could be explained
by either the slow and visually imperceptible diffusion of gas to the surface,
or by discrete explosive events.

This gives us many sources that
state "Ultra violet" is the range we need to be looking at, not "Infra
red" It also proves that official studies have known this for a long time,
and that sightings have been recorded for a long time by NASA.

But the most interesting piece
is the fact that the Alpha particle emmisions INCREASED when Apollo 15
flew over head... in the same way that a sudden brightening was recorded
both from Earth telescopes and the Apollo 11 Astronauts as THEY flew over
Aristarchus

REPORTS of curious flashes and fleeting clouds on the
Moon may not be figments of wild imaginations, astronomers say. A new look
at observations by the American satellite Clementine show that a small
area on the Moon's surface darkened and reddened in April 1994. Why this
happened remains a mystery.

For hundreds of years, people have reported seeing
flashes, short-lived clouds and other brief changes on the Moon's surface.
But astronomers have never been able to confirm the sightings. "The events
were observed on many occasions, but most astronomers don't believe in
them," says Bonnie Buratti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California.

On 23 April 1994, around a hundred amateur astronomers
reported seeing a possible darkening of the Moon, lasting 40 minutes, near
the edge of the bright lunar crater Aristarchus. At the same time, the
US Department of Defense's Clementine satellite was mapping the lunar surface.

Intrigued by the amateur reports, Buratti's team has
taken a close look at the Clementine data to see if the satellite also
recorded the event. Sure enough, they found that the crater looked different
before and after the amateur reports. "After the event, it looks redder,"
says Buratti, who announced the findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical
Society in Padua, Italy, last week.

Winifred Cameron, a retired astronomer who worked at
the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, thinks that brief colour changes might
be caused by small gas eruptions throwing dust around. We know that there
are pockets of gas in the lunar soil, and the gas may occasionally escape.
"I'm pretty sure that some of these changes are due to emanations of gas
that are more dense than usual," says Cameron. "The Aristarchus region
is the source of about a third of all of these."

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